Harper, July 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Douglas Brinkley brings to this magnificent story of Theodore Roosevelt's crusade on behalf of America's national parks the same qualities that made TR so fascinating a figure--an astonishing range of knowledge, a superb narrative skill, a wonderfully vivid writing style and an inexhaustible energy..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1957. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market paperback reprint. Especially heavy wear and chipping along edges of spine with superficial creasing of surface of that spine. Creased lower left corner of rear panel. 2nd edition with new introduction by Albright. [432 pages]. More
Grand Central Publishing, September 2017. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this..... More
HarperOne, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. This riveting history explores the annihilation of more than seven million women of spirit and intelligence under the guise of the 'witch hunts' of Europe and traces the current backlash against women to its European origins. Illus. First printing w/ full number line; Tight..... More
Knopf, January 2023. Hardcover. A comprehensive, sweeping history of America's rise to global superpower--from the Spanish-American War to World War II--by the acclaimed author of Dangerous Nation "With extraordinary range and research, Robert Kagan has illuminated America's quest to reconcile its new power with its historical purpose in world order..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2023. Hardcover. Since the earliest known marker denoting the edge of one land and the beginning of the next--a stone column inscribed with Sumerian cuneiform--borders have been imagined, mapped, moved, and fought over. In The Edge of the Plain, James Crawford skillfully blends history..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1954. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback reprinted from Oxford University Press edition. Heavily worn & creased spine worn with darkening. Some interior stains. Notes on verso of rear cover panel. [320 pages]. More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2019. Reprint. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. ONE OF OPRAH'S "BOOKS..... More
Crown, February 2022. First Thus. Paper Back. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis "One..... More
Penguin Books, March 2013. Trade Paperback. With a New Foreword The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped. North Korea's political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long..... More
Viking Adult, October 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Selected by "The New York Times Book Review" as a Notable Book of the Year The author of "The New York Times" bestseller "The Stuff of Thought" offers a controversial history of violence. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime..... More
Princeton University Press, August 1990. Hardcover. "Two things are certain about the future of politics and international relations," writes Gene Sharp. "Conflict is inevitable, and effective defense will be required against internal usurpers and international aggressors." The crucial issue is how to deter and defend against such attacks. Sharp has..... More
Random House Inc, August 1995. Trade Paperback. The Polish journalist whose The Soccer War and The Emperor are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in Imperium to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This magisterial book combines childhood memory with unblinking journalism, a radar for the truth..... More
Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1989. Soft Cover. Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For..... More
Hanover Square Press, January 2023. Hardcover. *A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of 2023**A "Next Big Idea Club" Must-Read Book for January**An Essence "Books by Black Authors to Read This Winter" Pick?**An Ebony Entertainment "Required Reading" Book for January**A Lambda Literary "Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature" for January**A Southern Review of Books..... More
Published by Grahame Hardy, January 1951. Reprint. Cloth. Quarto in heavily worn jacket with large chips, some scuff marks & tears. There is triangular cut out from DJ front flap. Brown cloth covered boards with edgewear with white lettering along spine. Likewise white stamped illustration front board lower right corner..... More
Vintage Books, January 1981. First Thus. Soft Cover. Octavo. First Vintage paperback edition. Shelf worn with some darkening at margins. [173 pages]. More
The Passenger, September 2021. Paper Back. Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Out of the Shadows by Tash Aw?Against the Stars by Tommaso Melilli?Afraid of Being Free by Samar Yazbek?plus: the Champs-Elysées between luxury and riots, the..... More
Harper, December 2022. Hardcover. Bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun on its centennial, and explores the unparalleled life of family ancestor George Herbert--the famed Egyptologist, world-traveler, and 5th Earl of Carnarvon behind it--whose country house, Highclere Castle..... More
Harper, October 2022. Hardcover. "A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information--and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" -- Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History..... More
Easton Press, 1991. Leather. Volume 1 only of two volume set; Solid binding, mildly worn at spine; Clean, sturdy, red leather boards w/ immaculate gilt lettering/design at front, rear and spine; Text free of markings. More
The Dial Press, January 1969. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo wit dust staining, darkening at spine and margins. Superficial creasing along spine. Red ink ballpoint underlining scattered here and there through text and some notes/side notes in same red pen. Grey stains rear panel. Front cover photo by Richard Avedon... More
Process, May 2007. Reprint. Paper Back. First published in 1972, 'Guitar Army' was the manifesto for a generation of young, revved-up readers in a turbulent but idealistic time of riots and wars, when some rockers posed with guns and demanded freedom and social change. Revolutionary writings and images from the..... More
Vintage, April 2013. Paper Back. These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler--patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat--present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler's immersion..... More
Oxford University Press, March 2003. Paper Back. More
